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Behold Him Setting In His Western Skies, The Shadows Lengthening As The Vapours Rise.
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Behold him setting in his western skies,
The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700)
-- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 268
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil.
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Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please.
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Not only hating David, but the king.
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Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state.
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And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.
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